Theatre NewsApril 9, 2016

EXPERIENCE ELIZABETHAN TRAVELLING THEATRE FOR FREE

An Elizabethan travelling theatre troupe will be setting up their stage in Staffordshire at a free event at the Potteries Museum allowing you to watch rehearsals and performances of some of Shakespeare’s greatest plays, and discover what an actors life was really like 400 years ago.

Elizabethan Theatre Experience | Potteries Museum

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]An Elizabethan travelling theatre troupe will be setting up their stage in Staffordshire at a free event at the Potteries Museum allowing you to watch rehearsals and performances of some of Shakespeare’s greatest plays, and discover what life was really like backstage 400 years ago.

Set in 1600, this re-enacment group portrays a travelling theatre company composed of an array of characters from the period. They will perform well-known excerpts from current plays, including Romeo and Juliet and the battle of Agincourt from Henry V.

Perhaps most excitingly of all, when not on stage, the group invites you to visit the tiring area to meet the players and experience life with a travelling theatre.

You may see them preparing for the next performance, learning lines, making and mending props and costumes (try them on), cooking, eating, gambling or quarrelling about anything and everything.

The super interactive event is being hosted by The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery and is a special theatrical experience to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare.

The event runs at the Potteries Museum in Bethesda Street, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire between 11am and 4pm on Saturday 23rd April, and is totally free.

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WHERE

The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery
Bethesda Street, Stoke-on-Trent, ST1 3DW

WHEN

Saturday 23 April 2016
11am-4pm

Tickets

Free
Suitable for everyone

BOX OFFICE

Tel: 01782 232323

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ABOUT SHAKESPEARE’S 400th ANNIVERSARY

On April 23, the world will commemorate 400 years since the death of William Shakespeare

Many of Britain’s cultural institutions are planning to pay tribute to the Bard’s life and works. It promises to be an impressively imaginative programme.

Highlights include:

BBC’s Shakespeare Festival will see an array of exciting productions on TV
Dream 2016 is the Royal Shakespeare’s mammoth production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream with 700 cast members made up of professionals, amateurs and schoolchildren
Shakespeare’s hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon will host daylong celebrations on Saturday April 23
Shakespeare’s Globe in London will see the banks of the Thames lined for 2.5 miles with 37 screens, each showing a specially-made film
Glyndebourne’s 2016 season will feature two operas based on Shakespeare plays
Experimental Theatre Company ‘Spymonkey’ draw together all 74 onstage deaths for a strange and bloody Shakespeare-inspired evening
S***-faced Shakespeare at Leicester Square Theatre sees a nightly performance of A Midsummer Night’s dream, with a different cast member extremely drunk. The remaining cast improvise around them
Newcastle under Lyme’s New Vic Theatre produced The Merry Wives, bursting at the seams with verbal fun, physical comedy, and now on tour

You can find out much more about the Shakespeare 400 programme at the official Shakespeare 400 website

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